Open
Letter to a Freeper, by Michael Rectenwald

(to a
Republican who said our site must be some kind of joke)

If you think our site is
a joke, then here's the punch-line: we don't "get over" a
coup. Sorry, but it is YOU who are in dire need of information and help.
You are either brainwashed by the media, or in a serious state of denial,
or both. Your "president" is a complete fraud and probably
a coconspirator in the largest voting scandal in US history. At least
his brother is, that is for sure.

But, in case you've missed
the real news, take a look at the following. For starters, take the
REAL vote count, the one that the Herald itself announced both within
the erroneously headed story you refer to, and the very next day. The
Herald's accounting firm's OWN TOTAL count gave Gore the win. I wrote
Mr. Merzer, the author of the article you allude to, and even HE admits
that. If you don't believe me, you can write to him yourself. Ask him
who won the total Herald recount, period, not who would have won if
every factor had been construed in Bush's favor leaving out at least
two key counties! Here's his e-mail address: MMerzer@herald.com.
His headline was based on a contrived and partial view of the matter,
a "what if the FL Supreme Court's count went ahead as mandated,
then. . ." The problem is, Merzer left out several counties, assuming
they would not have been recounted and assuming a "standard"
that couldn't have been assumed. In any case, the REPUBLICAN-desired
standard, even given Merzer's contrived scenario, gave Gore the win!!!

You can read the subsequent
Herald stories and the others that explain the completely misleading
Herald headline, from the link below. If you believe, in all your ignorance,
that Bush won the Herald recount, go to: http://www.legitgov.org/index_hot_April5.html.
Start with the first story ("Recounts
Could Have Given Gore the Edge, Broward, Palm Beach Checked"),
which appeared, rather disingenuously, a day after the false headlined
story, and which tallies the Herald's own recount TOTAL!!! Not all of
the counties had been included in Merzer's "Bush would have won"
scenario (likewise the subtitle of the next day's article: "Broward,
Palm Beach checked"), nor did he know what the standard would have
been.

After several exchanges,
Merzer could not answer the following question I posed to him:

1) My first point
is this: why didn't you first publish a story on YOUR total findings,
and frame all other scenarios within a total picture of YOUR "complete"
recount? We all want to know who REALLY won, not who WOULD have won
based on the legal contortions that the count/courts/lawyers and others
went through. Your story basically says, "like the other totals
before it, this one, too, is incomplete: Bush wins!" That is
unsatisfactory. It is more of the same, not the story. I know that
this may have become a novel idea to you by now, but what we're looking
for is the complete picture, not the picture as distorted by the courts
and the incomplete counts of counties/canvassing boards/judges/media.
"The whole truth, and nothing but the truth." Not a sophisticated
concept, but a useful one nonetheless.

Meanwhile, undervotes are
only a SMALL part of the story!

Have you not heard of the
voter purge that cost AT LEAST 20,000 people their votes, the majority
of whom were African Americans? Of course not. You're apparently not
aware of the DBT/Choicepoint voter purge that the State of Florida used,
knowing full well that thousands of Democratic voters would be illegally
disqualified. Go to: http://www.legitgov.org/index_hot_April5.html
[for Greg Palast section] and read the articles written on it.

Are you not aware that in
total, over 200,000 people, the majority of whom were African Americans,
and most all of whom were Democrats, lost their votes in Florida, due
to the combined causes of the Purge, poor equipment, confusing and illegal
ballots and a host of other civil and voting rights violations? Go to:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010430&s=lantigua.

Are you aware that that the
Supreme Court acted illegally in stopping the vote-counts in the election
and deciding on the election in the end; have you no idea that at least
2 of them had serious conflicts of interest in the case, such conflicts
as would have disqualified any petty court judge, let alone the Supreme
Court judge in a case of enormous consequences. Of course, you must
have read about Scalia's two sons who worked for Bush's law firm, and
Thomas's wife, who was on Bush's transition team? Again, these stories
are linked to our site: http://www.legitgov.org/linksPscotus.html.
But firstly, even intervening in the conflict was unconstitutional.
The conservative and partisan majority's twisted and distorted "logic"
was so pathetic and contradictory to their own usual "states' rights"
tradition, and so without merit, that even they said that the decision
could not be used as precedent. That in itself is unprecedented, and
a sure sign that their decision was pure bullshit!

Further, did you not know
that the call of the state of Florida for Bush, after the reversal of
the call that was based on SOUND statistical sampling the kind of which
is wrong once in 10,000 times...did you not know that the fool who called
the election for Bush was none other than John Ellis, Bush's OWN COUSIN,
who works for Fox News!?!

Add all these factors up,
and include the vote-counting intimidation by paid operatives, and many
other factors, and you have a bona fide coup
d'etat, the likes of which Bush's daddy orchestrated in foreign
lands as the CIA director.

Do you not see the connection
between this arbitrary and antidemocratic seizure of power and the antidemocratic
and nation- and world-violating policies being enacted by the Bush administration
today? OF COURSE YOU KNOW THIS, AND A WHOLE LOT MORE!!!!! But you are
in a state of DENIAL. Freud called this repression of traumatic events.
Seek help. But first, go to http://www.legitgov.org/Brecord.htm
for the complete national record of Bush atrocities.

For these stories and a whole
lot more, check out our website. We have it all there: http://www.legitgov.org.
(We've tried to be the complete center for the coup, the occupation,
and the resistance to the occupation).

You, sir, are in the dark.
Get a load of this: your man is a thief and a crook and a once-AWOL
idiot. He is inane and retarded, but mostly a menace to the planet,
not unlike his grandfather who bankrolled the Nazis, as even the Boston
Globe made mention of JUST TODAY.

Everything about this residency
is a crime. -Michael Rectenwald, April 24, 2001